The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal • September - December 2013 • Page 114
Communicating with Our Animal Friends By Shoh Nah Hah Lieh in our minds, and especially our judgmental mind, we can much more easily get in tune with our animals and “communicate” with them. That is an interesting word, isn’t it, the word “communicate”? It has so many levels of meaning. There is the mentally based communication that is so human. There is also the emotionally and heart based communication that is so human and animal. What I would like to share here is how to help oneself become more aware of how easy it is to communicate with our animals; how easy it is to “heart feelingly” communicate with our animals. One way we might start is to say something like “the animals live in the dreamtime,” meaning the animals who live so profoundly in their emotional bodies live as though they are in our own human dreamtime. Recall when we are dreaming how easy it is to just flow and move about from one reality or situation to another; how things in the dream can often morph into something else spontaneously. All of this just happens and we experience it without any explanation. It just is. We are just experiencing it and that’s that. Not like living in the mind. So one thing that will help with communicating intuitively with our animal friends is to just allow ourselves to relax our bodies, relax our minds, and, whenever possible, allow ourselves to receive the meditation that is the love of God, which is everywhere all the time. The love of God is Feeling, and it is by receiving this Feeling of Love that our own emotional bodies, our feeling bodies, can open more Shoh Nah Hah Lieh (Betsy Adams) is the author of Self Love and the Healing of our Animal Friends. and more to our animal friends, our human and plant friends, and all of nature and the cosmos. And, as we Animals are feelers and resonate deeply with the emotional body of their human, relax, as we “give over” and allow ourselves to receive the energies coming into with each other, and with nature. So, when we allow ourselves to feel how we us, automatically what the animals wish to share with us will be given to us. It is feel, and rest in these feelings without judgment, without running away from our this simple. There need be no efforting, or “trying to pick up” the information, or feelings, automatically we are in intuitive communication with our animal friends. seeking to find out what the animal is “saying” to us. All will be given as we rest We do not have to struggle with the mind so hard, to try and “figure it out.” If we and relax and allow ourselves to receive what is always spontaneously flowing to just allow our feelings, what the animals are feeling will be given to us in that and from our emotional bodies, those of the animals, of nature. Love. moment. The human mind is a very active creation that tends to judge, measure, compare, and compartmentalize. It puts limits on the self, on the emotions, and on the heart. Animals have minds too, but not in the dominant manner of the human, by which I mean, their minds do not dominate their emotions. Human emotions
One way we might start is to say something like “the animals live in the dreamtime,” meaning the animals who live so profoundly in their emotional bodies live as though they are in our own human dreamtime. and animal emotions are basically the same. Animals are feelers, and feelers just feel; feelings just “are” with no explanation. Human feelings are exactly like this too, and when we can go more into our feelings and not get so caught up
As we relax, as we “give over” and allow ourselves to receive the energies coming into us, automatically what the animals wish to share with us will be given to us. It is a God-given and every day thing to be able to communicate with our animal friends. It is not something esoterically available to just a few. I have yet to meet one human who is unable to communicate with animals. I have had the really happy opportunity to help people “remember” their intuitive abilities, their communication abilities again. As children, we are in complete communication with our animal friends, with nature. We do not feel our bodies and our emotions as separate from nature, from the animals. As we grow older, we begin to separate from these emotions. It is just a matter of remembering, of allowing ourselves to feel again oneness with our bodies, emotions, and nature. When we remember this, we rediscover that animals are spontaneously